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About wooden furniture and its properties.
Wood has been the only material for furniture for many centuries. Despite technological progress, people continue to make furniture from natural wood.
Moreover, thanks to the centuries-old experience of using different types of trees, studying their properties, people have found the most optimal ways to produce, process and operate wooden furniture.
One of the main factors when choosing wooden furniture is the appearance and texture of the wood from which the furniture is made. If we leave the visual qualities to your discretion, then it is better to figure it out in advance with the mechanical characteristics – hardness, wear resistance, strength and deformability.
According to the degree of density, wood is divided into three main groups: Continue reading
Wood furniture, solid wood furniture: twins or not even relatives?
Wooden furniture. How much has already been said, written about it … And how do you understand the phrase “wooden furniture”?
It is often necessary to notice that in a conversation users identify different concepts. For example, when discussing wood furniture, they mean solid wood products. But is all the wooden furniture “massive”? Let’s figure it out!
Something about materials
The association of wooden furniture with solid wood is not new. It would seem logical: the products are made from whole boards, maple, pine, birch, oak, beech, etc. In fact, everything is somewhat more complicated. Continue reading
Number and design of sliding doors
Doors of a wardrobe are called door leafs or facades (the word sash is not very suitable here). There can be two, three, four, five, six sliding doors (facades), but two or three doors are more common. Facades are one of the expensive elements of a wardrobe, therefore, the more fraternities, the more expensive the materials from which they are made, the more complex the design, the more expensive the model.
What are the facades of wardrobes made of? From furniture plates (MDF, particleboard), frosted stained glass, mirrors, combined materials.
The most economical option is chipboard (laminated particleboard). This is a furniture plate with external decorative cladding, for example, wood-like, wicker. In one wardrobe, the chipboard can be combined with different decors, for example, under light and dark wood – bleached oak and wenge. A more expensive wardrobe may contain decorative inserts made of leather, bamboo, rattan, solid wood, stones, glass, mirrors. Continue reading
